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Pit Bull or American Bulldog ?

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What kind of dog is Dawg ?

  • Pit Bull

  • American Bulldog

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Looks like a mutt but only slightly nonpurebred.
We have a mutt and he has a pitbull look and from a very pitbull rich area.
He is also a big teddy bear. Probably one of the nicest dogs you;ll ever meet.
People say you need to train them either way but to be honest we aren't the best discipliners and he just turned out to be a great dog.
I also think whatever he is mixed with (border collie maybe) just gave him a great temperament.

My GF works with a lady with full bred pits and claims they are gentle but I would never fuck with those dogs.
 
The only good thing I can think of about pit bulls is that the small children that they attack and scar for life or worse, is usually the owners child or other family member. I've seen the family loving pit bull that slept inside the house literally rip the nose off a 9 year old girl. Her crime was stopping in the hallway and reaching down to pet it. Once the parents beat the dog from being latched onto her face it let go and latched onto her arm, breaking it. When I investigated, the little girls blood was slung on the walls inside the house. Another case a small boys leg was broken, many other cases the owners child just had lifelong scars. In the vast majority of the pit bull bites I've investigated the last 10 years, the victim was a young family member of the dog owner that disregarded the facts of the breed. Even worse is when the victim is a completely innocent neighbors child that get mauled. Hey if you want a put bull get it, but when it mauls someone I sincerely hope it isn't your neighbor.

I know, I know everyone has opinions. Mine are based in my dealing with approximately 35-40k dogs while working in animal control, and thousands of those dogs were pits or their mixes. Also we investigated every reported animal bite in the county.

The old adage that there aren't bad dogs, just bad owners... I disagree.. An american put bull terrier and its mixes are a just a very unstable breed.

I have friends that own pits and my experience with make me fear for their kids safety. I have had to interview many people just like them, and have seen the results after their pit bull after it asserted its dominance on their child.
 
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NetGuySC said:
The only good thing I can think of about pit bulls is that the small children that they attack and scar for life or worse, is usually the owners child or other family member. I've seen the family loving pit bull that slept inside the house literally rip the nose off a 9 year old girl. Her crime was stopping in the hallway and reaching down to pet it. Once the parents beat the dog from being latched onto her face it let go and latched onto her arm, breaking it. When I investigated, the little girls blood was slung on the walls inside the house. Another case a small boys leg was broken, many other cases the owners child just had lifelong scars. In the vast majority of the pit bull bites I've investigated the last 10 years, the victim was a young family member of the dog owner that disregarded the facts of the breed. Even worse is when the victim is a completely innocent neighbors child that get mauled. Hey if you want a put bull get it, but when it mauls someone I sincerely hope it isn't your neighbor.


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NetGuySC said:
The only good thing I can think of about pit bulls is that the small children that they attack and scar for life or worse, is usually the owners child or other family member. I've seen the family loving pit bull that slept inside the house literally rip the nose off a 9 year old girl. Her crime was stopping in the hallway and reaching down to pet it. Once the parents beat the dog from being latched onto her face it let go and latched onto her arm, breaking it. When I investigated, the little girls blood was slung on the walls inside the house. Another case a small boys leg was broken, many other cases the owners child just had lifelong scars. In the vast majority of the pit bull bites I've investigated the last 10 years, the victim was a young family member of the dog owner that disregarded the facts of the breed. Even worse is when the victim is a completely innocent neighbors child that get mauled. Hey if you want a put bull get it, but when it mauls someone I sincerely hope it isn't your neighbor.

I know, I know everyone has opinions. Mine are based in my dealing with approximately 35-40k dogs while working in animal control, and thousands of those dogs were pits or their mixes. Also we investigated every reported animal bite in the county.

The old adage that there aren't bad dogs, just bad owners... I disagree.. An american put bull terrier and its mixes are a just a very unstable breed.

I have friends that own pits and my experience with make me fear for their kids safety. I have had to interview many people just like them, and have seen the results after their pit bull after it asserted its dominance on their child.
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I don't believe for a minute you've dealt with 35-40K dogs, cool story though bro...
 
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I don't believe for a minute you've dealt with 35-40K dogs, cool story though bro...
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Believe me, before I started in animal control I figured that one man working a couple of hours a day, twice a week could fulfill all the animal control needs here.
Call your local shelter and ask for their intake numbers, the small one usually intake 3k/ animals year, larger cities that I have experienced intakes 20-25k per year. The shelter I work out now intakes approx 8k/year. Usually half of the above numbers are cats.
Most people are shocked with any shelters actual intake numbers, I know that I was.

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MentalIlness said:
Nah, not a mutt. I do know that much.

A guy down the street has a Kennel registered American Bulldog, looks identical to my Dawg. He also says its the American Bulldog.

Although "both" vets guaranteed he isn't mixed with anything.

Maybe try another vet ? Or who could say exactly ?
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purebreds don't mean much today on the streets with so many backyard breeders out there.

Chances are if the dog wasn't over $2000 as a puppy, it's not a true 'fine' example of the breed.

To me this looks more like an American Bulldog in the face, but the ears and body seem more pit bull or something else.

In the end it really doesn't matter as most will classify either as a 'pit'
 
I understand the confusion. I was basing my numbers and comments on my ten years of animal control, animal bite investigation and rabies control experience . Some years we intaked more than 8k animals some years less. Our intakes are close to being evenly split between canines and felines.

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Looks closest to the pit bulls I've seen.

Coincidentally, I saw someone's pet pit running around loose on my street yesterday. Lotta kids like to play outside on my street...
 
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